Back At The Chicken Shack

[Sally PB]

One of my coworkers sold his kids on using up hamburger and hotdog buns by calling them "Bert and Ernie" sandwiches.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

One of my coworkers sold his kids on using up hamburger and hotdog buns by calling them "Bert and Ernie" sandwiches.

When I was a kid we made sandwiches, and snacks with the buns.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I do love the French Maran egg colour, I definitely have to breed for darker brown eggs.

You can really see the difference in the shades of “brown” colours, we figure the lightest egg is probable Inky’s and the slightly darker brown a Naked Neck’s.

Lana is laying Large Egg, so awesome on that.

A dozen of our hen’s eggs getting ready for hard boiling in the Wok for use latter…

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Working on my goals…

Sent an email to a possible source for RIR Rosecomb hatching eggs. Now we wait and see if they are still breeding them.

Will be ordering RIW Rosecomb hatching eggs, found a source.

Breeding Goals

Hhubby has some experiments he wants to do if we get Saipan male chicks in the straight run order, and I know he has some pure breeding he wants to do as well with the birds.

My goals.

Establish a White and Red line of RI Rosecomb, improve their size, egg laying, egg size, egg colour (I want to breed for dark eggs). Get them nicely in line with SOP in general. I really want to improve them meat wise as well… a solid dual purpose goal.

Produce Sex Linked Rosecombed chickens with RI body. I will need some Dominique if I want to breed Black Sex Link. But Golden/Red should be no problem if I can get the two colour lines established.

I might try to locate some ”RI blues” which I know are a cross breed but I do like blues. The idea of fiddling with them is appealing, to get Rosecomb bred in and create a nice Blue/Black/Splash line… but that is way low on priority… if I see the chicks I will get a few sort of thing.

Both hubby and I have some NN experiments we want to do.

The project I am considering will be to create a couple colour lines of NN with Rosecomb and RI bodies. White, Red, and Barred. We feel the NN we have are not SOP anyway and need improvement in both size and egg laying so experimental breeding is the plan with them.

We also will want to set up an Olive Egger and Blue Egger lines of birds from our flock… not sure what traits we will want in them besides large green and blue eggs.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Today is weight day…

1 Week Olds

No names yet. Going to have names from the Arthurian Legends.

Two Weeks Olds

Billina

Glinda

Ozma

Three Weeks Olds

Marans No names yet

Green Band

Yellow Band

RIR Single Comb

Aveline

Blance

Barred Rock

Pepper

Black Australorp

Elvira

5 Weeks Old

D’Uccle Cockerel

Peepers

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

A dinner recipe from The Fabulous Egg Cookbook by Jeffrey Feinman circa 1978

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I am going to post stuff on the birds in general here. I started this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-island-project.1512635/ The Island Project, to focus on the specific breeding project I want to do. But I will be posting a lot of the in process here.

So I figured out which adult birds we have that can be part of the project and which can’t… though I need to identify one I shouldn’t use. Possible maybe on using Lana.

My current goal is a nice RI type body NN, and two nice RI lines one red, one white. This is an in process sort of thing. Basically I focus on project planning and ideas, results over there. Don’t worry I will update on all the feathered kids here too.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Corn Bread

1 3/4 cups corn meal 1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup flour 1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1 1/2 cups milk
2 tablespoons shortening

Mix thoroughly dry ingredients, add milk and melted shortening; beat well and pour into well greased pan or muffin tins and bake in hot oven about 25 minutes.

From Best War Time Recipes 1918

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Looking for these birds is like the search for Bigfoot, Unicorns or other mythic creature….

I did manage to find hatching eggs for the whites… fingers crossed on them. I ordered 6.

Other breeds of interest … Dominique, note the difference in combs between Rhode Islands and Doms.

Wyandottes have it appears the curvy comb…

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028&context=saes

International Registry of Poultry Genetic Stocks

This lists genes and what they do.